a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Displaying fondness for formulas.
1873. Morley, Rousseau, II. xvi. 310. Mirabeau, like Jean Jacques himself, was so impressed by the marked tenour of contemporary feeling, its prudential didactics, its formulistic sociality, that his native insurgency only found vent in private life, while in public he played pedagogue to the human race.
[Cf. 1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. IV. vi. (1871), 162. The uncalculating Spirit of Jacobinism, and Sansculottic sansformulistic Frenzy!]
